page_title: The Amazing Race Australia 2
section_title: Filming and Development
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race Australia 2 / Production / Filming and Development
caption_attribution_description: English: sydney skyline, royal botanical gardens, opera house, harbour bridge, across farm cove.
context_page_description: The Amazing Race Australia 2 is the second season of the Australian reality television game show The Amazing Race Australia, the Australian version of The Amazing Race. The second season featured eleven teams of two in a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world to win the grand prize of A$250,000. The show was produced by activeTV Australia.
  This season premiered on Australia's Seven Network on 30 May 2012, one week after the last episode of the twentieth season of the American version aired in Australia. The show moved back to its old Monday schedule at 7:30 pm on 25 June 2012.
  The season concluded with police officers Shane Haw and Andrew Thoday winning the Race.
context_section_description: On 17 July 2011, the Seven Network announced that the show was renewed for a second edition.
  Filming began on 18 November 2011 at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. The Race travelled across four continents, 9 countries and 17 cities and was over 65,000 kilometres (40,000 mi) long. The 2012 edition marked a first time visit by a Eurasian or Australian edition of the franchise to the Americas, including the first visit by an Amazing Race franchise to the nation of Cuba, a country the original American edition couldn't visit at the time as the United States embargo against Cuba prevented Americans from visiting the island but restrictions have since been loosened due to the Cuban thaw of the Obama Administration. This season was also the first version outside of the American edition to circumnavigate the globe.
  Three new twists were introduced in this season. The Salvage Pass was awarded in Leg 1, giving the recipient team a choice between a one-hour head start or saving the last team from elimination in that leg, a U-Turn vote in Leg 4 that required all teams to vote for the team to be U-Turned at the start of the leg (This twist was also used in the second Israeli season which was also produced by ActiveTV) and an Anonymous U-Turn in Leg 5, in which the team who elected to use it would remain anonymous (this twist was first adopted in the fourteenth American season under the name Blind U-Turn). In Leg 6, a Yield was present for the first time in the Australian version. 
  During Leg 4, Lucy & Emilia were detained for driving into the grounds of a royal palace in Dubai, however, they were eventually released with a warning.
caption: The 2nd season of The Amazing Race Australia started at the eastern approach of the Royal Botanic Garden alongside Farm Cove overlooking the Sydney Harbour skyline.
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